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Sweden's agenda for WHO meeting on snus, nicotine pouches and e-cigs kept secret

The secrecy surrounding the upcoming meeting on the Tobacco Convention, COP10, is causing concern among many Swedes. Not least among those who use or work with smokeless nicotine products such as snus and e-cigarettes.

Activists mobilize for the WHO tobacco meeting in Panama

"The WHO focuses more on e-cigarettes and nicotine pouches than on tackling cigarette use. They don't care about protecting the alternatives that can improve smokers' health" says Lindsay Stroud, Tax Payers...

WHO fateful meeting on snus, e-cigs and nicotine pouches canceled

The planned meeting on the Tobacco Convention, COP10, in Panama City has been canceled. This is announced by the WHO Secretariat for Tobacco Control on its website. The reason is riots in the host country Panama.

Warning: "EU wants to ban white snus - also in Sweden"

EU health bureaucrats want to ban white snus, i.e. nicotine imports, in all EU countries, including Sweden. This is according to Charlie Weimers, Member of the European Parliament, after reading a leaked report commissioned by the European Commission...

85% of e-cigarette users in the EU have quit smoking completely

WHO urges: "Follow England's lead and save smokers' lives"

INNCO is organizing several actions in London to encourage UK politicians to defend tobacco harm reduction within the WHO.

Doctors: "E-cigarettes are the solution - not the problem"

Several leading health and addiction scientists around the world are reacting with dismay to the WHO's campaign against e-cigarettes.

INNCO: "Banning e-cigarettes hinders sustainable development"

WHO criticized for tougher guidelines on nicotine products "Smokers should have the right to choose less harmful alternatives to cigarettes" says INNCO.

Warns of millions more dead smokers - despite all efforts

The WHO's strategy to reduce the harm from smoking is not working. That's according to Derek Yach, who helped design the tobacco convention 15 years ago.

E-cigarettes work best for quitting smoking according to doctor Ricardo Polosa

"Drugs don't help smokers quit in the long run"

The WHO is failing miserably to get smokers to quit. "They don't understand how smokers work" says doctor Ricardo Polosa

World Vape day draws attention to e-cigarettes and harm reduction for smokers.

World Vape Day to entice smokers to quit

World Vape Day draws attention to e-cigarettes and encourages smokers to smoke on their own terms.